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Someone who agrees with the frustrated cafe owner is one of Llanelli’s councillors, John Jenkins, who says: “I think Llanelli still has a nasty little drug problem.

“Probably no worse than any other town our size.

“Still, I would like to see a tougher, zero tolerance approach to drug dealing and drug-related anti-social behaviour which is ruining the lives of too many law-abiding Llanelli residents.

“Primarily the police need the confidence from politicians to enact zero-tolerance policing. Sentencing guidelines need reviewing so the courts can hand down stiffer punishments for drug dealers and persistent drug offenders. But most importantly, the support services need to be in place to give drug addicts every opportunity to turn their backs on a life of drug use.”

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Seven years ago Llanelli MP Llanelli Nia Griffith said she would be meeting Mr Hakman to discuss the issues and called for more to be done to protect the area’s reputation.

She said: “We need to make sure we have a housing policy which brings a mixture of people to live in the Tyisha area. We don’t want any one community to feel the policy is making life difficult for the large number of extremely responsible citizens who live in the area.”